Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

The greatest prayer is patience.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

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

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.