Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make str...aight your paths. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and turn away from evil. It will be a healing for your flesh and a refreshment for your body.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the excessively shy force themselves to be forward, they are frequently surprisingly unsubtle and overdirect and even rude: t...hey have entered an extreme region beyond their normal personality, an area of social crime where gradations don't count; unavailable to them are the instincts and taboos that booming extroverts, who know the territory of self-advancement far better, can rely on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are stru...ck left-handed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While criticism or fear of punishment may restrain us from doing wrong, it does not make us wish to do right. Disregarding this si...mple fact is the great error into which parents and educators fall when they rely on these negative means of correction. The only effective discipline is self-discipline, motivated by the inner desire to act meritoriously in order to do well in one's own eyes, according to one's own values, so that one may feel good about oneself may "have a good conscience."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only effective way to help well-intentioned, intelligent persons to do the best they can in raising children is to encourage a...nd guide them always to do their own thinking in their attempts at understanding and dealing with child-rearing situations and problems, and not to rely blindly on the opinions of others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these... things to see you through. Circumstances do that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rel...y on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our system of government, in spite of Vietnam, Cambodia, CIA, Watergate, is still the best system of government on earth. And the ...greatest resource of all are the 215 million Americans who still have within us the strength, the character, the intelligence, the experience, the patriotism, the idealism, the compassion, the sense of brotherhood on which we can rely in the future to restore the greatness to our country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of t...hese movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »