Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

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

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.