What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Patience is the art of hoping.

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Do notfind fault, find a remedy.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

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.