Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

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.