You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

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.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.