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

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.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

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

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.