Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

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

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

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

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.