The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

A half truth is a whole lie.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

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