Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.
To overcome negative emotions, consulting intuition is always useful. How can it guide you. During nervous periods, it offers a more centered alternative to agitation. Intuition is a neutral from of information that allows you to soberly gauge the validity of your worries. If you tune in and find out they're unfounded, you'll be relieved. If they are founded, you can develop a strategy to deal with them.
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
If your news must be bad, tell it soberly and promptly.
A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.
I suggest that this is a good time to think soberly about our responsibilities to our descendents - those who will ring out the Fossil Fuel Age. Our greatest responsibility, as parents and as citizens, is to give America's youngsters the best possible education. We need the best teachers and enough of them to prepare our young people for a future immeasurably more complex than the present, and calling for ever larger numbers of competent and highly trained men and women.
Listen soberly: Just be 'I Am'; just stay here!. . . There's nothing that can stop you from following this simple advice.
Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.
