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.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

Every advantage has its tax

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.