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.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.