It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.