Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

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