There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

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 exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.