All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

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.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.