It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

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.

The more faithfully you listen to the voice withhin you, the batter you will hear what is sounding outside.And only he who listens can speak.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.