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.

The comforter's head never aches.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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.

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.