Habit: the shackles of the free

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

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.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.