It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

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

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

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

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.