Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.

Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.