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.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Duringa negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leavepersonalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities moreobjectively.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.