If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

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.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Renown and repose do not go together.

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.