A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.