It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Thesubconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does notdecide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its nature is to dowhat it is told, or what really in your heart of hearts you desire.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

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

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

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.