Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

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

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

Power comes from sincere service

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it