To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

Fortunatelypsychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itselfstill remains a very effective therapist.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.