A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

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.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.