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

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

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.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.