The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

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.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.