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.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

What is well done is done soon enough.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.