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.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.