The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

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

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.