The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

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.

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people angry enough to do something about it

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

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.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Every advantage has its tax