The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

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

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

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

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

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