It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

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

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.