Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

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 measure of a man is what he does with power.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Liberation is not deliverance.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.