The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

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

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out