Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

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

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

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.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Fortunatelypsychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itselfstill remains a very effective therapist.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.