Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.