Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

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.

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

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.