“Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes”
“Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.”
“The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.”
“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.”
“How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?”
“Although I notice there is never a truly good time to have a nice long chat with one´s mother-in-law, unless you are having an extraordinary life and marriage and your mother-in-law is, say, Maureen Dowd, or Indira Gandhi. Someone of that ilk.”