Dictatorship, fetishistic devotion to one man, is an ephemeral thing, a state of society in which one cannot express one's own thoughts, in which children denounce their parents to the police; such a state cannot last long.
Who speaks ill of me behind my back, contemplates my butt.
Success is learning to go from failure to failure without becoming desperate.
A good conversation should exhaust the topic, not the interlocutors.
Attitudes are more important than aptitudes.
The politician must be able to predict what will happen tomorrow, next month, and next year; and then explain why it didn't happen as he predicted.
After an election recount, only the winner matters. Everyone else is a loser.
The problem of our time is that its men do not want to be useful but important.
The criticisms will not be pleasant, but they are necessary.
The alternation fertilizes the soil of democracy.
Imagination comforts men with what they cannot be. Humor comforts them with what they are.