The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

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.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Takecare, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you willforever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make adifference, if you choose to do so.

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.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.