To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

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.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.