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.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.