Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.

If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

Seeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures, and confusions that we struggle with. We will recognize that the incident really may not have been about us in the first place. Instead it was about the wrongdoer's misguided attempt to meet his or her own needs. As we regard offenders from this point of view (regardless of whether they repent and regardless of what they have done or suffered), we will be in a position to forgive them.

We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.