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

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

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

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.