I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

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.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.