A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.