If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.

When weblame, we give away our power.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

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.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.