A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

Our errors are steps on the way.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

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

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.