Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

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.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.