Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall 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.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

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.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.