Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

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.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

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

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.