Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

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.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.

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!

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable