Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

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

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

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.

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

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags