Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

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

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.