My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

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

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.