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.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.