Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.