The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di