The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

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

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

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.