Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

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

A danger forseen is half avoided.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

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