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

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

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.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

He whoangers you, conquers you.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.