He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

The comforter's head never aches.

As long as there is life there is danger.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

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.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.