Inspiration comes of working every day.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

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.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

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 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.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.