When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

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.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.