Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

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.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Ittakes time to save time.

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

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.