If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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.

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

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

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