Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

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.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

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.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.