Our power is in our ability to decide.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

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

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

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

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

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.