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.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

A danger forseen is half avoided.

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

Remember when feminisit movements were something men gathered on street corners to admire as the girls strolled by

Genius is a long impatience.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.