To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

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.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.