Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

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.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

When you hear the word 'Invietable' watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.

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.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

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

Nothing is a permanent except change.