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.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Our distrust is very expensive.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.