The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work.

Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve.

The road to freedom is full of thorns and fire, yet happy is he who follows it!

He who allows himself to be arrested for a crime he did not commit will be expelled from the party, but if he resists and comes to us on a stretcher, he is a hero.

I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the ends desired.

One must scratch that part of the body or mind that itches.

A bowl rotates faster at the top than at the bottom.

One can't realize difficulty arriving at a momentous decision until one comes to do so.

To lead and live the life of your dream, you must arise and be in-charge of the authorship of your own destiny.

I view magic as simply the realization of unrecognized potential.

Don't point to the darkness, but to the stars.

I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.

All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution.

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

I think my ex-girlfriend has weekly lessons with the devil on how to be more evil. I don't know what she charges him.

Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them

Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.

Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.