People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

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.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.