A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

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.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

The property of power is to protect.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

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'sgood to shut up sometimes.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.