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.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

A language is like living skin itself.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.