To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

As a final incentive before giving up a

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.