Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

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