The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

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.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.