Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

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.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

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

The hardeststep is over the threshold.