Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

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.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.