Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

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.

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.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.