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.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

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.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

Tolerance that accepts merits as the most natural thing in World is the highest applause.

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.