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

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

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.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.