Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

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.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.