I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

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

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Conflictcan destroy a team which hasn't spent time learning to deal with it.