Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

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.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.