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.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

He understands badly who listens badly.

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

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.