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

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.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Fortunatelypsychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itselfstill remains a very effective therapist.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

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

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Wenever have the time to do it right but always have time to do it over.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.