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.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

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

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

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

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.