Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

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.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

The property of power is to protect.

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

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was