Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

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.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.