All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Communicationis a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. Ifyou're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of everypart of your life.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

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

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.