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

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.