We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

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.

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

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

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

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

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.