Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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

Ability is poor men's wealth

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

Duringa negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leavepersonalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities moreobjectively.

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.