Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

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.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.