The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there to wake up the soul.