Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

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.

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

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

God has created the world in play.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.