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.

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

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.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.