To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

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.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

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

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Faith is continuation of reason.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Peoplewho can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of itssolution.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them