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

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

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.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.