Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

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

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

To beprepared is half the victory.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

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

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

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.