It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.
One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

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.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.