Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

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

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

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.