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.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

The comforter's head never aches.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

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

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.