If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

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

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

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

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.