Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

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.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.