We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

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.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

The first duty of love is to listen.

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

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.