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.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.