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.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.