I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.