People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

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.

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.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest