Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

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

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

Duringa negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leavepersonalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities moreobjectively.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen