Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

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.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...