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.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Example is better than following it.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

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.