A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

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.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Example is better than following it.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.