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.

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.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

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

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

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