Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

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.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

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

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.