If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

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

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.