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.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

When you are feeling stressed and about to breakdown, just remember: STRESSED is just DESSERTS spelled backwards.. it's a piece of cake!

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

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

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

Our errors are steps on the way.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.