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.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

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

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

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

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

What is well done is done soon enough.

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

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.