He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

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

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to