If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

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.