Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

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.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

A language is like living skin itself.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.