The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

Power is the ability not to have to please.

Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.

those who despair of life are not long for it.

we expect definitions to tell us not only what is, but what to do about it; to show us how the world fits together and how its different parts connect and work. ... A label is the first step toward action.

a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.