Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

you salute your duty,you need not salute anybody. But if u pollute ur duty, u hav 2 salute every body.... -ABDUL KALAM

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.