Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

Faith is continuation of reason.

To teach isto learn twice.

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.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

A room without books is a body without soul

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.