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.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

Thereare two sides to every question.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

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