To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

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.