Silenceis the mother of truth.

Example is better than following it.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

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.