If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.