Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

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.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

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.

Well done is better than well said.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.