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.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

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.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.