If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

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

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .