Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

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

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

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

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.