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

Ittakes time to save time.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

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.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.