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

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

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.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.