Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Alexander's last wrds: Bury my body, dont build any monument. Kip my hand outside,so dat d wrld knws,who won th wrld had noting in hand wen dyin.

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

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

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.