If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

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

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

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.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

What is well done is done soon enough.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.