No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

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.

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.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

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

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.