If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.