Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

He understands badly who listens badly.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

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.