Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

No strength within, no respect without.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

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

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.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.