When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

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.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.