Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

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

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.