Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

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.

Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.