Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

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.

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.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.