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.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.