A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

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.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Suspicion begets suspicion.