Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

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

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.