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.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Step after step the ladder is ascended