The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

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.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

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

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.