It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.

There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

There is a joy in danger.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.