There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

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.

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