In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

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

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

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.

The first duty of love is to listen.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.