If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Necessity truns lion into fox.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

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

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

To startblindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, andwill lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.