Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

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.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.