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.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

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

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

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

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing