Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.