Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

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

Necessity truns lion into fox.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

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.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.