I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

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.

The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.

Voilence is a Just when kindness is vain

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

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

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

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.