Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

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.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.