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.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Use softwords and hard arguments.