The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

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.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

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.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.