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.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.