Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.