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

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

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.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

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

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

They mayforget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.