If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

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 summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.