A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

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

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.