Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

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

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.