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

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

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.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

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.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.