If you find any one determined to talk failure and sickness and misfortune and disaster, walk away.

If you find any one determined to talk failure and sickness and misfortune and

disaster, walk away. You would not permit the dearest person on earth to

administer slow poison to you if you knew it. Then why think it your duty to

take mental potions which paralyze your courage and kill your ambition?

Ella Wheeler Wilcox