Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination