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

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.

Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Our power is in our ability to decide.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.