There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free