It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

The present is never a happy state to any being

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

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.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.