The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

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.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

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

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.