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

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

Only the educated are free.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

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.