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.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.