Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

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.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.