Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.