Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

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 taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

A woman has reached reaal women's-lib status when she is the one who forgers the wedding Aniversary