Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Neversay more than is necessary.

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.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.