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.

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

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.