A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

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.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.