The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

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.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

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

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.