Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

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

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

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.