Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

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.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.