Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

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

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.