It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

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.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.