A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

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.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

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.

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

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.