Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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.

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

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

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.

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

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

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.