If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

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

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

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 lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.