Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

They know enough who know how to learn.

To beprepared is half the victory.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

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

Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.