Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

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.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.