Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

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.

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

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 goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out