Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

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

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

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.

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

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.