Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

A good conscience is the best divinity.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

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.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

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

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

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.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.