I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.