Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

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

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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

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

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

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

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.