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.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

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

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.