Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.