If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

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

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Neversay more than is necessary.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.