It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

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.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

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

Habit: the shackles of the free

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

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.