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.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

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

Successis blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy itwon't come out while you're watching.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.