Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

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

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.