To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

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