If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

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.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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

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.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.