Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

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

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.