Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

Neversay more than is necessary.

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

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.