Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

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

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.