If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

When a man meets his mates society begins.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.