Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

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.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.