You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Talkback 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.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

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

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e