It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

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.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

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

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.