We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

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.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.