Our power is in our ability to decide.

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.

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

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

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.

He understands badly who listens badly.