The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

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.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.