Onlywhen all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

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

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.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.