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.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.