The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

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.