Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Voilence is a Just when kindness is vain

Necessity truns lion into fox.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.