Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Stability is not immobility

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.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.