Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

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.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

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.

True miracle are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence God has given him

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself