As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Personal appearance is looking the best you can for the money.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Throughconflict we get to unity.

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.