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.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

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.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.