People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini.

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.