You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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.

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

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Youdon't have to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth.Success has made failures of many men.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.