Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

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

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

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

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

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.