To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness,and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

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.

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.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there to wake up the soul.