Our power is in our ability to decide.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

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

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.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.