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.

He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

No strength within, no respect without.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.