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.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

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

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

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

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.