Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.