Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

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.