Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

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.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

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

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

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

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.