Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

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.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

The property of power is to protect.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

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.