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

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.