No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.