Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

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.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

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

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

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.