The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

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.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.