The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.

The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.

That path leads ever down into stagnation.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.