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 compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.