We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

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.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

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

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

All thingsat first appear difficult.