Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

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.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Ittakes time to save time.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di