Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

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

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

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

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.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.