Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

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.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

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?'

Our distrust is very expensive.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

A danger forseen is half avoided.