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.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

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.