Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

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.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.