Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

He understands badly who listens badly.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…