Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

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.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

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.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid