All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

Our errors are steps on the way.

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.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

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

Liberation is not deliverance.