The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

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.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Communicationis not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.

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

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.