Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

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

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Outside noisy, inside empty.