Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

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

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

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

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

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.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.