A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

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.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.