We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

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

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

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