If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

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

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

To effectivelycommunicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceivethe world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication withothers.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.