To beprepared is half the victory.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

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.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.