The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

Liberation is not deliverance.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

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.