It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.