"The only way to defeat an enemy is to make him your friend."

"If I died a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying."

"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."

"I suppose I am a little old-fashioned. I believe in the simple things, like honesty and hard work."

"You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose."