Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.