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.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

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.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.