We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.