Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

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.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.