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.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

God made time, but man made haste.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

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

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.