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.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.