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.

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

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.