Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

The present is never a happy state to any being

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.