Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

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.