Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

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.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.