Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

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

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

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.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge