Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it.

The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

With a nation, as with a boxer, one of the greatest assurances of safety is to add reach to power.

The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

The future comes one day at a time [so don't fear and try to solve all the worries and problems of the future today].