Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

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.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.