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.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.