Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

To effectivelycommunicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceivethe world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication withothers.