Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

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.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

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

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.