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.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Genius is a long impatience.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.