The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

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

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

The principle of equal protection is a positive concept implying equality of treatment in equal circumstances.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

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.