This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

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.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.