A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

The greatest prayer is patience.

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

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

Nevercut what you can untie.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.