Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

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.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.