To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

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.

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.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.