Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

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

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

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.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

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