There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

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

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

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.