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.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Onlywhen all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to