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.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.