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.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

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

Silenceis the mother of truth.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.