Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

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

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

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.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

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.