Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.