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 surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.