We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

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

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

A room without books is a body without soul

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Power comes from sincere service

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.