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

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Remember when feminisit movements were something men gathered on street corners to admire as the girls strolled by

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

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

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.

He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.