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

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.