If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.