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

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.