Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

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 in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.