One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

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.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.