Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

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.

The more faithfully you listen to the voice withhin you, the batter you will hear what is sounding outside.And only he who listens can speak.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.