To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

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.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

EDUCATION BEGINS WITH LIFE.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

Everything has it's beauty, but not every one sees it.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.