Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

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.

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

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

God made time, but man made haste.

To beprepared is half the victory.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.