It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

The property of power is to protect.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

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

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.