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

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.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

A faithful friend is medicine of Life.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

The wise man reads both books and life itself.