Necessitynever made a good bargain.

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.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.