Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination