Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

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

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.