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.

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

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

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.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.