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.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

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.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.