I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Skill inthe art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplishnothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.