Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.