Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

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

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.