Step after step the ladder is ascended

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.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.