Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

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.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.