Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

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.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Money is what things run into and people run out of