Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

You can't unscramble an egg.

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.

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

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.