If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.