Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

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

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.