The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

EDUCATION BEGINS WITH LIFE.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

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.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.