If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

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.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Power comes from sincere service

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.