Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

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.