The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

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.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.