Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

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.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.