Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

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.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.