In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by 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

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.