Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

you salute your duty,you need not salute anybody. But if u pollute ur duty, u hav 2 salute every body.... -ABDUL KALAM

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.