Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Genius is a long impatience.

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.