Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

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

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

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.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people