We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

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.

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

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.