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

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.