Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

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

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

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.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Tolerance that accepts merits as the most natural thing in World is the highest applause.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

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