It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Only the educated are free.

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

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.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to