Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.

When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.