Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

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.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

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

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

The present is never a happy state to any being