Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

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

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.