Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Youdon't have to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth.Success has made failures of many men.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

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.

Thereare two sides to every question.

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

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol