A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

They mayforget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

To beprepared is half the victory.

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.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.