Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

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

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.