Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.