Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

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

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

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

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.