Education is no substitute for intelligence.
It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.
You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They’ve discovered they’re a people. They’re awakening.
He who controls the spice controls the universe.
Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You’ll find me there, staring out at you!
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work and their civilization collapses.
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
To determine if you’re human. Be silent.
Caution is the path to mediocrity.
The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.
I don’t worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It’s a matter of just sitting down and working.
I am not the kind of person I want to be.
To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.
If I’d been born in my grandfather’s time, I’d have made my grandfather’s mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don’t want to make my grandfather’s mistakes today.
Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?
It’s easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.