Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

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

To be preparedis half the victory.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

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

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

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.