A language is like living skin itself.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

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

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

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.