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.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

As a final incentive before giving up a

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.