We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

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