If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

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

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

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.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.