There is no knowledge that is not power.

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.