Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

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

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

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.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Faith is continuation of reason.

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.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.