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

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

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

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.