Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Sometimes I think and other times I am.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.