Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

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

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

To teach isto learn twice.

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,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

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

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.