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.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Stability is not immobility

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Duringa negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leavepersonalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities moreobjectively.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.