The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

A good conscience is the best divinity.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

Patience is the art of hoping.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

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.