Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

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

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

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

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.