Nostrength within, no respect without.

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.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.