Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.