A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

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

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

We arethe prisoners of ideas.