Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with 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.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

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.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.