You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

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

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

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

Thework will teach you how to do it.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.