Talkback to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Our errors are steps on the way.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.