Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

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.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.