The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

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

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Our distrust is very expensive.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

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.

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.