Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

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