There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

The ultimate measured a man is not where he stands in marents of comfort, but whre he stands at times of challenge & contraversy.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

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.