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.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

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.

Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.