We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

No strength within, no respect without.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Personal appearance is looking the best you can for the money.

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 evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.