Once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry, and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts. Don't keep looking back over your shoulder.

If you have some idea you believe in, don't listen to the croaking chorus. Listen only to what your own inner voice tells you.

If we speak poorly about that which we do well... people will assume we perform poorly!

If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused.

Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.

The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.