Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

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.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.