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.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea