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

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

God has created the world in play.

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.