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.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.