Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

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.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".