Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

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

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

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 have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.