Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

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.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Aproblem is a chance for you to do your best.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.