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.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Throughconflict we get to unity.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

Discord gives a relish to concord.