The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

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.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.