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 exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

When a man meets his mates society begins.

As long as there is life there is danger.

They know enough who know how to learn.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Self-trust is the first secret of success.