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.

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.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

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

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Use softwords and hard arguments.