The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

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

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

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.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.