Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.