There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

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

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

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.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.