Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

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.

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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.