We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

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

Pain is the outcome of sin.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Genius is a long impatience.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him