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.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

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.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

You've gotto know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, knowwhen to run.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

The present is never a happy state to any being