Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

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.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Power comes from sincere service

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.