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.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.