Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

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

Habit: the shackles of the free

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.