When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

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

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.