Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

A room without books is a body without soul

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

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

A Leader is a dealer in hope.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.