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.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.