I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.

There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.

Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.

Fear is the mind-killer.

The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.