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.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.