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

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there to wake up the soul.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.