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

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.