The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

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

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

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.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

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.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.