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

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

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

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

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.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.