All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

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.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

Renown and repose do not go together.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They