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

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

Thecorrect strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreignclients is a Japanese strategy:ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefullyfeel for pressure points.If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Sugges

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.