Duringa negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leavepersonalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities moreobjectively.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

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.

To beprepared is half the victory.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.