Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.