Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

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

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.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

The major cause of traffic accidents is that men put into their cars as much ego as petrol.

Pain is the outcome of sin.