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.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

Aproblem is a chance for you to do your best.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

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

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical