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

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there to wake up the soul.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

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.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.