The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

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.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

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

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there to wake up the soul.

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

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.