Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

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

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.