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

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.