You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

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.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.