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.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

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.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

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