Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

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.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.