Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

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.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.