I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

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.

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