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.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

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

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.