If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

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.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di