One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

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

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.