Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

The present is never a happy state to any being

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.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.