I like friends as I like music - when I am in the mood.
The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.
If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms.
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.
People react positively when things are clear and understandable.
It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone. In reality, there is no such thing as 'separateness' and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive.
You walk in our locker room and you see Pau Gasol, you see Andrew Bynum, you see Kobe, you see Ron Artest. . . we have so many players that can play.