Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

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.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.