If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

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

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.