Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

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.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

As a final incentive before giving up a