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.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Peoplewho can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of itssolution.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

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