Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

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

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.