As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

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.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.