It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

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.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.