Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.