Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

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

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.