The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Conflictcan destroy a team which hasn't spent time learning to deal with it.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

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

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

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.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.