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

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

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.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

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.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

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