The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

When you are feeling stressed and about to breakdown, just remember: STRESSED is just DESSERTS spelled backwards.. it's a piece of cake!

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

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.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

No strength within, no respect without.

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