Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

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.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

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

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.