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.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.