Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

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

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

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

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Faith is continuation of reason.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

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.