Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.