The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

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

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.