‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.