The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

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

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

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

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

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

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.