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.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

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