A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

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

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

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

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

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

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.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.