Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

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.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

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

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

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