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

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.