Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

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

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

To teach isto learn twice.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.