Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

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

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

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

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

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