Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

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