There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness,and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

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.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

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

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.