The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

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