Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

When you are feeling stressed and about to breakdown, just remember: STRESSED is just DESSERTS spelled backwards.. it's a piece of cake!

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

Takecare, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you willforever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make adifference, if you choose to do so.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.