Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

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.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

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.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.