Talk back 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.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Alexander's last wrds: Bury my body, dont build any monument. Kip my hand outside,so dat d wrld knws,who won th wrld had noting in hand wen dyin.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to