Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

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.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

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.

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