It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.

Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.

Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.

In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold.