There is no knowledge that is not power.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

Ability is poor men's wealth

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

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

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

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.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.