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.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.