There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Habit: the shackles of the free

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Ittakes time to save time.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.