It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

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.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

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

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.