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.

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.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.