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.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

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.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.