Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

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.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to