The present is never a happy state to any being

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

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

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

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.