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.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.