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.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.