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.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.