Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

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

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.