Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

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

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

The greatest prayer is patience.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.