We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

Think big, believe big and act big for gaining victory over your difficulties.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

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

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

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.