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

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

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