A coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder.

Power is mass multiplied by cohesion.

It is not true that it is hard to govern Italy. It is useless.

How I ever could have thought he was boring or easy was beyond me’ (Daisy, 'Friendship on Fire', p. 471).

Not the kind of person, who believes that it is best to believe "what happened, happened as it should happen" when things don't come as expected.

The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")

She ignores me, so I cup my hands over my mouth and do something I haven’t done in years— barnyard sounds.

The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.

The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.

In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.

Never stray from the Way.

There was the gaudy patch of sunflowers beside the west gate of the palace of the Prince of Ombria, that did nothing all day long but turn their golden-haired, thousand-eyed faces to follow the sun.

Him I call a Mahatma (great soul) whose heart bleeds for the poor, otherwise he is a Duratma (wicked soul). Let us unite our wills in continued prayer for their good.