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.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.