Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

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.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

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.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.