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.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.