The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Renown and repose do not go together.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.