Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

Aproblem is a chance for you to do your best.

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

The present is never a happy state to any being