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.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

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

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.