A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

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.