The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

They know enough who know how to learn.