The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

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.

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.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

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

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to