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.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Onlywhen all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

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

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.