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Success it's what you do with what you've got.

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.

Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.

Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love.

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien that the more you see it the better you like it.

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.