There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Evil communication corrupt good manners.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

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

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

It's good to shut up sometimes.