I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

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.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.