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.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…