A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power.

Only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are.

A meeting is an occasion when people gather together, some to say what they do not think, and others not to say what they really do.

Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped.

When you deny something your power is much more conspicuous than when you approve it.

The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.

Like a flower, bloom with all your love and power.

Perhaps the only real failure is that implying waste a conscious and flagrant non-use or misuse of ability.

A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.

I'm very happy by myself - I'm lucky in that way - if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit of alcohol for me to add an edge, not to dull it.

Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.

Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because they wouldn't have jobs, otherwise. But it's phony, you know.

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

When you attain to an egoless emptiness great creativity happens.

Nobody controls me but my mama and God.