Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

The key to most difficulties does not lie in the dilemmas themselves, but in our relationship to them.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

Those who fume at their problems become their victims.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.