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.

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

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Ifanyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.