Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

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.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

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

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits