We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

The first duty of love is to listen.

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

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

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.