The present is never a happy state to any being

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

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

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 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.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.