Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

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.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Habit: the shackles of the free

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

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.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur