The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

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.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history