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.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

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

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.