The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

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

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

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.