Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Personal appearance is looking the best you can for the money.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

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.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

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.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.