At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

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

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

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.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

To teach isto learn twice.

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

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.

He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.