Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

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

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Skillin the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He canaccomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

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.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.