If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

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

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

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.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.