The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Life only demands from you the strength you posses

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.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

The principle of equal protection is a positive concept implying equality of treatment in equal circumstances.

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