If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

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

Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Our distrust is very expensive.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

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

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.