If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

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 exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.