Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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

You can't unscramble an egg.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.