If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.