Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Nevercut what you can untie.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

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.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

Do notfind fault, find a remedy.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

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.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.