If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.