I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

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

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

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