Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

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.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.