Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Genius is a long impatience.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.