Ittakes time to save time.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

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.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others