If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Everything has it's beauty, but not every one sees it.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

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

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.

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.