Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

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.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.