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.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Ittakes time to save time.

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 man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.